Information for Restaurants

Exmoor Food Fest 2018 & Taste Exmoor Awards

In February 2018, the 4th Exmoor Food Fest will take place, offering participating restaurants and other food related businesses across the region the opportunity to showcase their skills and attract customers and media attention at a time which is notoriously quiet.

Here is the info in a nutshell:

The Exmoor Food Fest runs from 1 February to 28 February 2018

Participating restaurants offer at least one or more of the ExFF18 meal deals(details below)*

All restaurants who return their registration form and payment by 25 October 2017 will benefit from our “Early Bird” registration fee.

All restaurants signed and payed up by 20 January 2018 will automatically enter in our Taste Exmoor Awards.

All participating restaurants will be featured on an interactive map on www.exmoorfoodfest.com and have their own page on the website with details about their ExFF offer (with links back to their own website).

The Exmoor Food Fest Offer: ***NEW THIS YEAR***

The traditional ExFF offer is 2 courses for £10/ 3 courses for£15

NEW THIS YEAR: Restaurants can choose between £10/12.50/15.00/17.50/20.00/Gourmet offers (see explanation on page 5)

A voucher will be available on the ExFF website which canbe downloaded – customers should be encouraged to use the voucher to access the ExFF offer (data to be retained by restaurant). We are also printing vouchers on the back of flyers which will be distributed in the region.

Taste of Exmoor Awards

All businesses signed up for ExFF18 by 20 January 2018 will automatically enter the Awards.

Customers will be able to vote in several categories, such as Presentation, Taste, Ambience and Service, on www.exmoorfoodfest.com (ONLY participating restaurants can be voted for) from 1 February to 5 March.

Titles tobe won are Exmoor Chef of the Year, Exmoor Dining Experience of the Year, Host (FOH) of the Year.

The Awards Ceremony will take place at the end of March. Date & venue tbc

Registration Fee for all participating businesses:

Early Bird offer:Sign up and pay by 25 Oct 2017 £85.00

Sign up and pay after 25 Oct 2017:£99.00

Registered businesses will be listed on www.exmoorfoodfest.com (interactive map/own page) and promoted on all our social media channels, press releases and other promotions.

All participating businesses will receive a digital version of all display materials.

Each business will receive 200 printed A5 flyers (with vouchers on the back) in earlyJanuary.If you require more flyers or posters, you’ll be able to purchase them from us when registering for ExFF.

What to do next:

Please fill in the registration form and arrange payment of the registration fee (invoices will be sent out upon receipt of the registration form).

Send information about your business and 4 – 10 images to elke@exmoorevents.com

Choose your ExFF deals (menus can be sent later)

Come up with ideas about how to piggy-back on the ExFF (prepare vouchers for customers to be used after the Exmoor Food Fest, run extra events etc) – let us know and we’ll put everything up on the ExFF website and social media channels.

Make sure we receive your registration form and payment as soon as possible – the quicker you act, the quicker your details will be on the website.

Use your own social media to help promote the event – make sure you RT/share our posts.We will always RT and share yours.Social Media posts:#ExFF18

For the first time, the 2018 Exmoor Food Fest offers restaurants and customers more choices.While we still hope that a number of restaurants will offer the traditional 2 courses for £10.00/ 3 courses for £15.00 (even if only on selected dates), you can now add other options.

Here are the price categories:

->It is up to you how many courses you offer at each category.

->You can pick as many or as few categories as you like.

->Gourmet: you will need to let us know the price you are going to charge.

Example 1:

Develop one ExFF menu and offer it at a different price category at lunch/ dinner or
on different days of the week.